When I started making websites, โa designer who codesโ wasnโt a big deal. After all, the only place to procure the obscure people who made websites was Craigslist. Finding โa designer who codesโ seemed like the least odd thing youโd find.
The web was so new youโd always have the strangest concoction of disciplines amongst those who worked on it โ an english major doing product, an actor writing API code, or a poet who moving pixels. I encountered all these and it wasnโt strange, it was _cool_